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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
Trip to the timber yard20 Feb '06 12:06 pm
Monday morning- Smiley is 'on to it' and decided to go to the timber yard early- he is looking forward to making the Wishing well. The instructions I printed out look easy to follow,and the website also has photos of completed projects, which is encouraging. At lunch time everything is cut out .I am going to paint the palings before they are assembled as it seems the best way. I like your suggestion, Cottage garden, of planting the well-it will be in shade, so probably bizzy lizzies in bright colours would look best. Liza`s comments on roses and clematis on your fence sounds a lovely idea! Let us know your plans for it.Your trees look healthy, and the textures will be a good foundation for your garden bed style.
It is a great day today !
Dixie.
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CottageGarden
nominate your own title
Iowa, USA
22 Feb '06 1:33 am
Be sure to post photos of the wishing well when its finished! I think its a wonderful idea for an odd corner and the bizzy lizzies will be beautiful! 
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
Wishing Well11 Mar '06 7:01 am
Has everyone been holding their breath ? (No,not really )
We finished the Wishing well before we left for a few days at Coromandel.I had painted it first. Measurements between the bottom palings had to be exact(3 eighths of an inch) so that it could be brought around to join up into a circle .And they WERE ! And it DID ! The 'roof' was considerably more difficult, as the palings had to be screwed on horizontally .
I am going to paint decorative things on it--little hearts,and whatever I think of as I go.
Dixie.
This is a 'before photo, taken about 4 years ago ,from steps down from the house.
I painted white,the curved wall on the left, and planted plumbago and crepuscle rose.
hydrangeas now curve around the wooden fence now painted green at the centre left.
The cedar is in the centre,and that is where the fairy garden is now being formed.
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
watering can11 Mar '06 8:58 am
I found this old watering can here, and just HAD to paint it.
Dixie
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
Fairy Garden19 Mar '06 6:14 am
Yesterday the WW was finally finished . I put too many decorations on it at first ,so had to sand them all off , re-paint it and do a simpler design. I did red hearts on the white uprights , in a pattern I have used for patchwork .I bought a little metal bucket and chain which is now hanging from the centre
rail.We carried it out to the fairy garden ,and there it stands. I am better able to visualise the next stage of cutting extra paths to it.(I already made paths around the tree) I found some old bits of furniture in a rubbish heap , so have painted lime green a couple of curved bits to make 'bridge' rails as an entrance to the garden , and will get on to it soon.
Dixie.
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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
A Fairy Garden....27 Mar '06 8:37 am
Dixie, Cottage Garden, and all Fairy Garden lovers, my daughter just sent me this...Fairy page. I feel that you 'll also find things that you love here...
www.gardenfairy.com/fairygarden/attract.htm
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
Fairy Garden27 Mar '06 11:42 am
Yes, I found it already --a place of gentleness and loving thoughts. The world needs such a place.
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched....They must be felt with the heart "
Helen Keller.
Dixie
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
One of the Staff12 Apr '06 7:18 pm
Toepirry, one of the staff , doesn`t actually do very much.(Probably because I don`t pay him very much , either )
Dixie
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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
The ..."staff"!!13 Apr '06 2:02 am
The lovely....."staff" looks great! He is just adorable! I bet , my little Nicholas would adore him!
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moosey
head gardener
Looks Like a Gnome13 Apr '06 5:34 pm
That staff looks very much like a gnome - now have I told you about my one, lone, bachelor gnome? Lately when I looked he was lost in the depths of the rockery. Rockeries are supposed to have smaller, specialist, delicate plants in them, right? So I go and plant some coarse knee-high grasses. Aargh!
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